When I was pregnant with Petie, at about 8 weeks I started throwing up a little in the morning and then I would be fine for the rest of the day and this routine only lasted two weeks before everything resumed to some sort of normalcy. Since I am at about 10 weeks I thought I had cleared that morning sickness thing this time (based on my last pregnancy - I know naive). And then today came . . . I got sick this morning and figured that was it. And then I threw up in the Kleenex box driving to day care . . . had to pull over twice before I got to day care . . . and eventually got sick of being sick in the bathrooms at work and came home. I became pretty worried when I couldn't even keep down half a saltine and a sip of water. Mike got me a sea sick acupressure bracelet, ginger ale, ginger supplements, saltines, and oranges (vitamin c is suppose to keep morning sickness at bay). Finally I have been able to keep down two oranges and 1/3 cup ginger ale.
I know this is not a pleasant blog to read . . . but I don't know what I am going to do if this last for another 3 weeks! Or worse 7 weeks! Or longer!
Any suggestions?
I am now also convinced that it is a girl!
Is it the received wisdom that sickness accompanies being pregnant with a girl? One culture says that when a woman is pregnant with a girl, she will lose some aspects of physical beauty because they are being transfered to her daughter--Honduran folk idea. I used to get sick to my stomach--I think that TUMS helps....Also believe or not mcdonald's hamburgers or cheeseburgers. And once when I had the stomach flu for 2 weeks and lost 20 pounds, the only thing I could eat were saltines and Big Burgers with Cheese no Onions from Carls Jr.
ReplyDeletelol - I love your stomach cures. Thankfully the Sea Band worked wonders and I was able to keep lunch and dinner down! Combined with an obscene amount of vitamin c and ginger. From watching our girlfriends Mike and I do believe that when you carry a girl you tend to be a little/lot more sick . . . your butt gets a little bigger . . . and you do lose some physical aspects of beauty. So all those things combined . . . I am very sure this is a girl! But well worth it to transfer beauty to my daughter!
ReplyDeleteKeep a bucket near by...and ginger is great. Tums only worked for me in last trimester (well as much of it as I got through) for heart burn. Bucket close at hand and some patience (because this too shall pass) worked best for me.
ReplyDeleteGirls are more work... and it starts at pregnancy I found out. I had major aches and pains from A and some nausea which I never had with Gav. I lost some physical beauty for sure with her... my stomach, butt and thighs. Thankfully we can work at getting it back lol. Feel better ginger ale is the only thing I know too
ReplyDeleteThanks for the advice and encouragement! Still sick on and off. As long as I have my seaband on I am not throwing up though although the plane rides and airport smells from my latest TDY pushed me to the max!
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